Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 46 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 +40
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 146 89 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.95% 4.80% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 5.11% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 69 26
10th Percentile £345 £413 £381
25th Percentile £481 £485 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -13.39%
75th Percentile £681 £669 £650
90th Percentile £785 £767 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,114 1,741 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.18% 93.85% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,120 1,359
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £560
% change year-on-year -0.18% -1.61% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.42%) Confluence
3 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) HCL Notes
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.68%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.68%) Maximo
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.68%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.55%) Azure
2 23 (15.75%) Power Platform
3 16 (10.96%) AWS
4 9 (6.16%) SaaS
5 7 (4.79%) GCP
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.05%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.05%) GitHub
8 3 (2.05%) Serverless
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.37%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.37%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.68%) LAN
2 1 (0.68%) NAS
2 1 (0.68%) PSTN
2 1 (0.68%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
2 1 (0.68%) VoIP
2 1 (0.68%) WAN
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) Power BI
2 7 (4.79%) Metadata
3 5 (3.42%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.37%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.37%) Tableau
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.68%) DataStage
5 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.68%) Power Query
5 1 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (10.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) GitLab
2 2 (1.37%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.68%) JDeveloper
3 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.68%) JUnit
3 1 (0.68%) Mockito
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 67 (45.89%) Social Skills
2 53 (36.30%) Finance
3 32 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (17.12%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.59%) Banking
6 8 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Police
10 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.37%) Front Office
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Local Government
11 2 (1.37%) Marketing
11 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (17.81%) Analyst
2 22 (15.07%) Architect
3 19 (13.01%) Lead
4 17 (11.64%) Senior
5 16 (10.96%) Business Analyst
5 16 (10.96%) Project Manager
6 8 (5.48%) Consultant
6 8 (5.48%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.11%) Security Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Change Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Developer
8 5 (3.42%) Security Manager
8 5 (3.42%) Strategy Architect
8 5 (3.42%) Strategy Manager
9 4 (2.74%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.74%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (2.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.74%) PySpark
2 2 (1.37%) .NET
2 2 (1.37%) Playwright
2 2 (1.37%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.37%) scikit-learn
2 2 (1.37%) Spring
2 2 (1.37%) Spring Boot
2 2 (1.37%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (0.68%) EDI
3 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.68%) JSON
3 1 (0.68%) Kafka
3 1 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.68%) Pandas
3 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.68%) RESTful
3 1 (0.68%) Spring MVC
3 1 (0.68%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.74%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.05%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.37%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.68%) BYOD
6 1 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.68%) CSOC
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.05%) Linux
1 3 (2.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 36 (24.66%) Agile
3 30 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 27 (18.49%) AI
4 27 (18.49%) Decision-Making
5 25 (17.12%) Analytics
5 25 (17.12%) Migration
6 22 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (14.38%) Roadmaps
8 18 (12.33%) Project Delivery
9 16 (10.96%) Requirements Gathering
10 15 (10.27%) Change Management
10 15 (10.27%) Project Management
11 14 (9.59%) CI/CD
11 14 (9.59%) Data Modelling
11 14 (9.59%) DevOps
11 14 (9.59%) Validation
12 13 (8.90%) Data Governance
12 13 (8.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.59%) SQL
2 13 (8.90%) Python
3 4 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (2.05%) Bicep
4 3 (2.05%) C#
4 3 (2.05%) Java
5 2 (1.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.68%) Scala
6 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.16%) Degree
4 5 (3.42%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.74%) PMP
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.37%) CEH
7 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.68%) ACCA
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) CISA
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.64%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.59%) QA
3 9 (6.16%) PMO
4 8 (5.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.48%) NIST
5 6 (4.11%) GDPR
6 5 (3.42%) NCSC
7 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.05%) SLA
9 2 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (1.37%) GRC
9 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.68%) COBIT
10 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.68%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Docker
2 2 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.42%) Terraform
2 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) EMC VPLEX
3 1 (0.68%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 34 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.16%) Databricks
3 8 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.79%) SAP
5 3 (2.05%) Oracle
5 3 (2.05%) Remedy
5 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.37%) BMC
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco
6 2 (1.37%) Google
6 2 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.37%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) Freshdesk
7 1 (0.68%) IFS
7 1 (0.68%) Palantir
7 1 (0.68%) Planon
7 1 (0.68%) Pure Storage
7 1 (0.68%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.68%) Workday